Mark Bittman: Food Matters, part 2

[vamosama]

Whoever has a little green space should grow his own vegetables,herbs,spices,etc.

[robert1268]

Bunk.

[Pulsed101]

Is this available on DVD?

[hopeso]

If I ate a head of broccoli for lunch instead of a hamburger, I'd be hungry within a half hour. i get my burger with ONLY lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion. At the drink dispenser, there's small, square button on the face of the Sprite tap. Don't push your drink cup against the lever, that'll give you Sprite. Press the little square button with your cup in place.

[hopeso]

You will get, absolutely the best tasting, clearest, refreshing SODA water you ever tasted. Soda makers MAKE SURE that the water they use is a clean and clear as possible. Try it.

[hopeso]

Keep in mind that this isn't Club Soda which has a fair load of sodium. Taste the fountain soda water and taste Club Soda,,,, no comparison. Also, the soda makers offer what they call Club Soda but some use potassium chloride. No salty taste at all. AND some soda makers offer NO additives. The label reads, water and CO2, period.

[hopeso]

I skip the fries if eating at MacD or A & W. Wendy's fries are now whole potato and taste fantastic. When I indulge in fries, it's Wendys and I ask for it without salt. They taste so good, they don't NEED salt. Some foods are not palatable at all without LOADS of salt.

[hopeso]

Wendy's offers something else. A fantastic baked potatoe. Soft, tender and HOT as if it spent a half hour in the oven while you waited. I eat the whole thing, skins, yes. And I DO NOT indulge in the sour cream or other added ingredients. The potatoe alone does taste that good.

I know, it IS junk food and has been mucked with a lot. But I minimize this with wiser choices. No cheese, no salt, no mustard, ketchup, mayo.

[hnainfo]

Food does matter... I am just tired of interviews and information that likes substance and specific practical things. He avoids answering some of teh questions. and she doesnt hold him to it

[lemaxmas]

I agree we need far more veggies in our diet, but the sources DO matter. A gmo head of broccoli sprayed with pesticides may not be as good as a hamburger from grass-fed, organically raised beef. Also some people, genetically need a larger portion of meat/protein than others.

[mouthwasher]

Study the way he says things...it's obvious that he's full of shit and just trying to sell his books.

[islandmamma]

@mouthwasher First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. I think your brain is washed too...this man isn't telling us anything different than what humans have been doing for thousands of years with the exclusion of the past 450 years.

[mouthwasher]

@islandmamma Yeah ok, Ms.Hostile-comment-for-nothing­, I'm not brainwashed, I assure you.

[kimberlily1983]

I think people would be much healthier on vegan diets (I know I certainly am), but even if people followed Bittman's recommendations, that would have such an enormous impact in their health. There would also be a lot less suffering for the animals as well...

[RoyStewart]

we tried just eating lots of just veges, and now we find we have to eat them organically grown because we were getting a weird poison cycle depending on which veg we were eating. Eggs too, and milk, and coffee and tea. more and more poison is used to grow the basics. . .potatoes are off the menu.

[chinablck]

mark you look like my father or you black ? look at the thick lips

[sailor3333]

So now the US has "discovered" what Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Greece... have ALWAYS known and done food wise and is going to sell it as their own....

And people wonder why the US has a rep of being ignorant and arrogant.

[ameroux]

I think his argument is that the U.S. is doing everything wrong and we need to change. I don't think that because he's an American he's saying that only Americans have the answers to these problems.

[sailor3333]

Oh please, now the US has "discovered" that what all the mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, France, etc...) have ALWAYS done is the right way to eat!!!

And people wonder why Americans have a reputation of being ignorant and arrogant.

[mvflyhalf]

I think the last point Bittman makes seems intuitive but is much more ambiguous than that. I think a healthy pasture raised animal is extremely different than a sick unhealthy CAFU animal. I agree we need to stop eating sick animals but healthy animals are what we have been eating since before we were human. It is hard wired into us.

[Silent13Assassin]

I accually having that problem...

What are healthy, long keeping foods?

Does anyone know a good resource?

[mvflyhalf]

Thats the thing, healthy and long keeping are typically inversely related because healthy, life-supporting food tends to spoil quickly because if we don't eat it right away, bacteria and microorganisms will consume it (it rots).

[dunntaiwan]

@mvflyhalf ... that's what you want.. your food to rot. If it doesn't, there's a reason why.

[dunntaiwan]

@mvflyhalf 

[sownangel]

check my vedeos on the mark of the beast

[thedavidkeith]

Has anyone else noticed that the ad running from YouTube after this video ends is from Quiznos? What is wrong with this picture?

[NonSenCESmokEsU]

Kill MONSANTO!!!!!!!!

[peterbourgon]

I disagree that we must not much meat. check out the The Price-Pottenger Story

[superheronumber1]

I've been eating mostly raw conventionally grown produce for about the last 1.5 years and in that time I noticed a huge difference, I could go on forever about the weight I lose, how I felt better ect... but now I am worried because I learn that conventionally grown produce is nutritionally inferior to what is used to be and it gets worse as our soils get over farmed and depleted in minerals. Now I start to worry about this. As a student I can't always afford organic foods so what can I do?

[wasearcher]

According to David Wolfe, nutrition expert, sea vegetables have the minerals we are missing. I buy dried kelp, dulse, etc. from Mountain Rose Herbs and a kelp farmer on the Atlantic coast. Blackstrap molasses (organic) are high in minerals too.

[Jarocho2003]

Don't worry about it...you're eating healhty...when you earn more money you'll be able to afford all of the organic stuff...great job on the diet!

[Blakerey]

There is a HUGE difference between quality and type of food. quality is everything, type is important, but less so. For example, grass fed vs corn fed beef- grass fed has plenty of omega 3's, plenty of vitamins and minerals, and very little saturated fat, while the McD's burger will kill you eventually. Similarly, studies have shown that organic produce has much higher nutrient levels than conventional produce. The FDA has recorded drops in nutrient levels in conventional foods since the 60's.

[Blakerey]

While the standard broccoli is probably better than a standard McD's burger for me, a grass fed organic beef burger on a whole grain, organic bun could possibly be better for you than a standard head of broccoli. But then again, if I'm eating good quality food, I'm going to go for less meat for cost reasons. $6-7 a # is going to make me want to buy much less ground beef.

[mayatiita1]

@Blakerey You know what, I agree. I could appreciate why he was trying to make the distinction that he was making but to be honest I agree with you that the difference in quality is fucking HUGELY important! I am a vegan and I eat only plant produces, which is an even higher percentage than what he is suggesting here, but I believe that only eating cheap supermarket veggies and fruit and nuts is not enough to be optimally healthy. You need to eat fresh organic if you want to be super healthy.

[bubblybombshell]

We should avoid refined and processed foods, sugar and fats and we should eat LOTS and LOTS of fruits and vegetables and beans ...that is healthy and inexpensive. Thanks for posting this video.  5 stars

[stevesurv]

90% of calories from plants? That is ridiculous. We need unprocessed animal food more than we need vegetables.

[dlcpereira]

LOL are you sure? you need animal aminoacids, just like proteins, nothing more.. you need 0% of animal lipids..

[ptcldarrin]

Animal lipids are important for human health even in relatively large amounts compared to protein. vegetables are good too but not as good as animal food, generally. Especially an raf diet.

[stevesurv]

Hey good to see you here!

[stevesurv]

I am positive.

[stevesurv]

0% animal lipids is asking for trouble.

[dlcpereira]

vegetarians live more 3.4 years average than us, dont know how is that asking for trouble

[bmoviequeen1426]

Compared to the average American diet? That's an easy one..it's like veggies VS Easy Mac...Of course the vegetarian would win. If you compare a vegetarian to a high protein/low sugar dieter I think that would be an interesting study.

[dlcpereira]

worldwide. just read Michael Pollan last book

[BobbyBo14]

Also, I must say, its not too hard to eat well and cheep, its all about priorities. Rice and pasta are cheep, but fruits, beans, and veg, are still cheaper than meats. It is too easy to eat well 3 squares a day on a very low budget. Its all about training and food culture. If you expect meat every meal, you will spend more money and be less healthy.

[BobbyBo14]

Great points. But, after living in Europe for a few years, I have to say, over there they really do shop for what they cook each day. Just in the size of the grocery carts says a lot. As an American it is amazing to shop in a German store and see what everyone else buys and what you get. We shop for a week plus, they go for a few days.

[julienunruh]

Awesome. Great video, thanks!

[CMLovejoy]

Fresh vegetables and fruits are really expensive. People in poverty which a lot of people are in now, can't afford to eat good.

Its really simple, poor people eat the crap, and the people that well off eat well.

You can't eat fresh vegetables all year round because they don't grow all year round. Unless you want to buy that head of broccoli that probably came from somewhere in South America, or China its just not accessible.

[DrBarnes1]

You're not taking into consideration how Nixon and Earl Butz expanded ag. production of corn and soybeans from tree line to tree line to make food choice. It happened and the avg. no. of calories per capita went up by 400-600 calories. Presto -- obesity.

Yes, vegetables cost more, but healthy things cost more in a supermarket. Poor people are eating "cheap" foods to fill themselves with calories.

[CMLovejoy]

The American agricultural industry is controlled by corporate entity's that just care about pumping out beef for export.

That's why we produce so much corn.

We produce bushels and bushels of corn to feed factory farms. These factory farms produce cheap livestock for export on the global market.

[impalapez]

Hopefully we can prevent Vilsack from giving Monsanto carteblanche....

[seasonseatingsfarm]

I hope so but I don't have a lot of faith.

[cookingupastory]

One of the discussions around 'eating right' or good, fresh, unprocessed foods is food costs vs. health care costs. But not everyone can afford to eat in a healthy way. That's why people are voicing concern on the policy level in different states. With a $90 billion engine in the form of the Farm Bill - perhaps subsidy allocations can be moved around to help/support farmers who grow fresh foods for their communities and less to large (profitable) food conglomerates.

[SpazChat]

@cookingupastory ,Thumbs down! Give me a break- they can't afford to eat healthy, but yet they can afford to spend $2800 a year at bars on alcohol, $1700 a year at Starbucks on drinks filled with sugar, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, caffeine, saturated fat, growth hormones, whip cream, etc...

And then there's the excuse that "it" doesn't taste good. It doesn't taste good to those people, cause they don't know how to cook and aren't creative. Pills and surgery don't "taste" good either.

[trevor123698123]

@cookingupastory There should be none of that whatsoever. Government is defunct when it moves into that territory

[RenaissanceMan929]

I would like to see an analysis of what it costs the consumer , in terms of food dollars spent, to eat "right" vs "wrong". My experience has been that the food bill is considerably higher if you "eat right:".

[DrBarnes1]

American food bills tend to be about 9-10% of salary. In France and Spain, it is 15-16% of salary.

[superheronumber1]

And guess who's healthier?